Posted in Culture, Philip Carl Salzman on Oct 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Philip Carl Salzman In Israel, there is a political lobby group called “Peace Now,” as if peace were a circumstance that could be brought into being by the political will of one party. The same sentiment was expressed, somewhat less arrogantly, by Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, when he famously (or infamously) said that […]
Posted in Democracy, Geopolitics, Martin Kramer, Philip Carl Salzman, Tamara Cofman Wittes on Oct 15th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Tamara Cofman Wittes There are two opposing coalitions in the Middle East today. On the one hand, there is a revisionist coalition comprised of Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah—a coalition dissatisfied with the distribution of power in the region, and dissatisfied with the current agenda-setters and frameworks for state action. These revisionists include states […]
Posted in Iraq, Philip Carl Salzman on Oct 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman Peter W. Galbraith, in “Is This a ‘Victory’?” (in the current issue of The New York Review of Books), frets that there is no apparent way to “transform Iraq’s ruling theocrats into democrats, diminish Iran’s vast influence in Baghdad, or reconcile Kurds and Sunnis to Iraq’s new order.” It is apparent […]
Posted in Chuck Freilich, Egypt, Geopolitics, Israel, Jordan, Maps, Palestinians, Philip Carl Salzman on Oct 1st, 2008 5 Comments »
From MESH Admin Israeli Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland served as head of the Israeli National Security Council from 2004 to 2006. He is the author of a new paper, “Rethinking the Two-State Solution” (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy), in which he argues for exploration of two other alternatives: the “Jordanian option” and […]
Posted in Counterinsurgency, Culture, Philip Carl Salzman on Sep 26th, 2008 Comments Off on Anthropology and strategic studies
From Philip Carl Salzman There is one central lesson that cultural anthropology has to offer. It is the lesson of Franz Boas, who founded American anthropology, of his students Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, and of their intellectual descendants, such as Clifford Geertz, arguably the most influential American cultural anthropologist of the second half of […]
Posted in Geopolitics, Michael Young, Philip Carl Salzman on Sep 19th, 2008 Comments Off on The first 100 days (5)
The MESH roundtable on the theme of “The First 100 Days” concludes today. MESH members have been asked these questions: What priorities should the next administration set for immediate attention in the Middle East? What should it put (or leave) on the back burner? Is there anything a new president should do or say right […]
Posted in Academe, Iran, Martin Kramer, Philip Carl Salzman on Aug 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Martin Kramer Ann (Nancy) K.S. Lambton, the distinguished British historian of medieval and modern Iran, died on July 19 at the age of 96. Her obituaries tell some of her remarkable story as a pioneering scholar and a formidable personality. They are also interesting for what they omit, regarding her role in the idea […]
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